Pro-female faculty hiring bias

Updated: 2025.07.30 7M ago 3 sources
Accumulating experimental evidence suggests faculty evaluators prefer identically qualified women over men in academic hiring. — Challenges prevailing narratives of pervasive anti-women bias, with implications for DEI policy design, Title VII enforcement, and perceptions of fairness in higher education.

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More Evidence of Biases Against Men than Against Women in Faculty Hiring
Lee Jussim 2025.07.30 100% relevant
The article compiles experimental audit-style studies of faculty hiring that, it argues, more often show bias against men than against women.
Scientific Rigor versus Rigor Posturing
Lee Jussim 2025.07.01 90% relevant
The article reports close replications of Moss-Racusin (2012) that allegedly reverse the original finding and show bias favoring women when faculty evaluate identically qualified candidates for a lab manager role, aligning with evidence that evaluators prefer women in academic hiring contexts.
REVERSAL: Science Faculty's "Subtle" Gender Biases Against Men
Lee Jussim 2025.06.27 92% relevant
The article reports three highly powered, preregistered replications using near-identical methods to Moss-Racusin (2012) that found 'biases against men' in science faculty evaluations, aligning with evidence that evaluators may prefer identically qualified women over men.
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